New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1928, Page 6

This would have been contrary to all economic law without the function- ing of the reserve system. When there is much gold, with the curren- cy based on & gold standard, the value of the currency is bound to depreciate, which meana high prices. Thus runs the economic principle. But the Reserve System has seen to it that such matters have undergone is not put dewn oa the record then the police are not fulfilling a duty. Newspapers of respectabllity know {when, in the public interest, to stay | the hand of the printer. When pub- | licity at the wrong time would en- !able a person being sought to es- | cape they always co-operate. Buch ipapers do not by their actions de- | teat justice. A worthy newspaper al- HBRALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Meter Vehicle Commissioner and I heartily agree Oeanectiout, ‘'with Mr. Bennett when he says that Fagt_: ard Fancies Development of the magic tern: Scene; scenario; obscene. —THE OBSERVER— Makes Random Obeervations On the City and Its People In small communities where inti- " iovsed Delly (Bendsy Bwcepted) At Hermld Bidg. 67 lan- Charch RATES Btreet Lindy and Wales are simjlar, and serve their countries in similar fash- jon, but it doesn’t matter so much when Wales falls. e e 75 & Month, asurprising answer. Apparently, some vague fear bf tragedy Jurks in Post Office at New Brit- Send all communications to Fun at the lhl:::‘“ Second Clase Mail Matter. | | | Business Ofce .. Editorial Rooms . proftable advertising medium T O P aatics et &nd Drese open to sdvertisers of the Ameclated Press | I'he Associated Press i exclusively el titie@ to the wse for re-publication of all mews credited to it or not otherwise redited fn this paper and also local | uows published thereln. | Audit Baresn of Circulation riae . %% ' mational orgaatzation which furnishes newspapers and adver- tisers with & etrictly honest anal lirculation. Our circulation etatist ased upoa this sudit. This insures pro- Lection agalnst fraud fa newspaper dis- | tribution figures to both national and | loca] sdvertisers. | | Horald s on sale @ally in New | t Hotallng’s Newsstand, Times | ; Schults's Newsstands, Eatrance ‘Contral, 42nd Street. Automobile deaths increased more | than 1,500 in 1927 over 1926, the re- | port of the National Safety Council states, In spite of this certain manu- facturers are emphasizing the speed | ot thelr vehicles. | e College students who hissed Pres- ident Cosgrave in New York showed | conclusively that an intelligence test is not necessary. The post office department has its rules and régulations, and neither | local authorities nor the Public Utilitles Commission have a say ln‘ the matter, Families without mail receptacles simply don’t get their | mall delivered, and that ie all there | is to it. If all details of the post office are as well managed it is a perfect institution. The mayor's two goals at the Sun- day hockey vote apparently are be- | ing contested by the losing team. As a teacher of geography Lind- | bergh i quite a filer. . “We'd like to have enough musi- | cal knowledge to feel sure how much of Marion Talley is publicity and how much s volce,” remarks | the Ohlo State Journal. But why pick on Marlon Talley when there are so many others to choose from? | It scems that Connecticut will | have no favorite son at the Republl- | can convention; but J. Henry Rora- | practice, Why should the populous |y, goviag, imck will be there. Our knowledge of Esperanto runs | to this: If you can speak it you can have a fine time talking to your- | selt, “UNFAVORABLE” PUBLICITY When a burglary takes place in what way can an account of the oc- cuprénce injure the property own- | crs? Does even Chief of Police Hart ihink that because o burglary was | committed at the Hotel Stanley @ gencral knowledge of that | would keep trade away? Who is so | unintelligent as to think that an in- | stitution burglarized, or in case a burglary was committed on fts | premises, can be harmed when it is | pparent that it was innocent of | partnership in the erime? | Most of the attempts at the sup- | pression of what is playfully termed | ‘unfavorable” publicity from ‘a desire 1o wicld some influ- | ence; it enhances the pride of some folk to think they were able to “keep | it out of the papers.” And let it be | sald right here they don't succeed it the papers land the The chief of police’s influence to sup- | on newspaper perfect zero without springs | . press news this imounts 1o a “ven a rim. A newspaper's duty to its readers i< to publish news, not censored in- formation from public servants. The public expects its public ervants to play fair to the public through its newspapers, The chief of police fiot being employed to be a censor. The chief say lielping property their bread and butter.” others? is he feels justified in owners “protect How ahout No such censorship is ex- Tolk foils of the police. reised in the case of ordinary who get into the There is no denving more thelr that frequently unfavorable publicity comics than is good for them, and an appeal to the chief has no of- mly somebody wielding influ ation: tha 10 say, property owners who can toll butter ts such conside i the ehief some bread and be it given out. From this it is jump to the exercise f than nfluence to suppress The chief need not worry hout “the papers.” worry tic, This attituds despoiled a happening verd unduly fecling of the news- It is more imporiant attitude is on dence in a polico 10 about th of the pub- ok of chief business to suppress t of | complete con who makes it ¢ news at the belicst of 4 comparative- v few individ The _poli perty. Tt 48 give cuding police public pro. nto any citizen, n- a reporter, { to examine the record police business | better than the public which sup- | turn provide the tax money. | | pay for itself. Whether things work ways endeavors to aid justice and the law, rather than be an impedi- ment. In taking the stand that requests for news suppression should be | respected “In certain cases” the po- Iice chief lets it be known that he is willing to serve the requesters ports the department. The mistaken policy should be abandoned with alacrity. It 1s the wrong trail to- ward public service. STREETS AND VALUES It is generally believed that an improved thoroughfare increases the value of contiguous property. And it may be proveable that when all streets In a clty are highly improved all property feels the impetus of in- creased values. It is not always easy to prove that by the assessment figures, however. And it quite frequently happens that property owners, confronted with the prospect of being assessed for the construction of public works along a strect, remain singularly un- moved by the statement that the improvement will increase the value of their holdings. All they can see, at least some of them, is the likell- hood of being assessed for the im- provement. On the whole the letter sent to Edward F. Hall is correct; property | values are increased by smooth | strects and other improvements, The | statement that “at this time every | effort should be made to maimmni real estate values” will or ought to appeal to the city, as it is the values that create grand lists, which in{ There is a difference between a | property's market value and the assessed value, however; why this should be so is not always clear. If the city could increase assessments Ly providing good streets throughout the entire city the enterprise would out this way is a different question; perhaps they don’t, which may be one reason why all the streets are not liks they ought to be. ATE WATERS UPKEEP | New Englanders frequently pucker a contemplative eycbrow and con- | clude the federal road aid program is all wrong, both in principle and | castern bailiwicks, for instance, pay | good money to the federal govern- ment to have it squandered upon | good roads in the hinterland? Most of this monhey is squeczed from the | fatted calf In the castern markets, it 1s considered a downright shame | that so much of it is sent to Kan- | sas, Texas, Montana and Nevada to | construct roads on the 50-50 plan. Let these states who profit so mightily from tederal extortion in | the cast pay for their own roads — | thus runs the argument. :n President Coolidge is against | the system, though the law continues | in force. | What ars the westerners, how- over, to think of the continuous ar. ray of expenditures made on hvhul([ of enstern tidal waters and harbors? What is the taxpayer in Nevada to think, for instance, of the paid to maintain state wa money | ters dn Connecticut for just one yea sum allotted this year is for the Nutmog state. | The taxpayer in Nevada has just as much right to grumble over the money spent for harbors and rivers | as the castern taxpayer has the right to grumble over the frderal con- struction of rouds the lands. And hoth exercise their rights. | The 's the westerncrs ire government in the the | in hinter castern ifting on th road matier, wh western- says the viver and harbor districts | rafting on the government in | Wt they get from the war depart- | ment. oth may be right or both may be wrong; but one cannot be right and the other wrong. ULATION System STRAINING S| R interestod in reguiating spec Federal rve tally It has the means at its dis- When posal speeulation becomes anerous, the discount rate; specutators hecome deflated; it o the up g0 to get money lLich to speculate Three Federal Lave now raised the the New Yor motive hohind the action is what Reserve districts including The rate, rescrve bhank s comment., It is «aid the policy of the reserve system sinee its start has Leen to control extravigant speculation. Bull movements in the stock exchange may go on for a while, but as soon speculative clement b to run wild on borrowed money the re- serve board fakes notice, The remarkable thing performed by the the making I system is that despite the gold con ' Lirge gold imports sines war the of the world, a continuous and exten- woided of America r sive rise in p has been | in America. But is | with | proper regulation. There is reason to believe that the policy has been one to maintain the value of the dol- lar at around 6 cents compared with its pre-war value. If this has been the policy in effect, the achievement has been a complete success. The Americaa system has nettled British observers somewhat. The New York Times quotes Mr. Me- Kenna, head of the Midland Bank in London as saying that in 1920 the Federal Reserve decided against “the perpetuation of the evils of in- flation” and “determined to deprive the incoming gold of its credit-cre- ating capacity."” Everyone knows what happened— the country underwent a major op- eration; when the {nflation mo- mentum stopped there was a severe slump, the farmers being hardest hit. Spokesmen for agriculture, of course, found great fault with the policy of the Federal Reserve Board. Quoting Mr. McKenna. again one | finds he says prices in the United States are not determined by an in- crease or decrease of the country's gold holdings, but “by the policy of the Reserve banks in expanding or contracting cradit.” The British give evidence of be- ing much surprised at how ‘our re- | serve system is working. We evi- dently have invented something, and have put it into operation on & countrywide scale, that had never been thought of before. The Bank of England in the past has advanced | its rates for the purpose of checking loans, and British banks have at times become “tight” when they did not approve of the uses for borrow- | ed money. But we have an auto- matic system that virtually controls prosperity, preventing dangerous in- flation, abating overzealous infla- tion, stablilizing Industry and trade. | — | SOVIET EFFRONTERY The Ruesian Soviet has a poor idea of falr deallng. Its first act after gaining control over what formerly was a great country was to | repudiate all existing debts. After | we joined hands with the Allies| Russia borrowed $2$0,000,000 from | the American government; its bor- | rowings from private ‘sources in America ran into the millions, All| the debts have been repudiated by | The attempt of the Sovict to hor- row more millions, ‘“secured by a | mortgage on the Russian State rai ways,” was an astonishingly inap- propriate effort to obtain another ' hen out of the coop Which previous- | ly had been raided. The American State Department could not do | otherwise than to warn against flo- tation of the loan. 1t is true that there are other European nations which have made no pratical effort to pay their debts | they have made acknowledged what they owe. One can have patience with a debtor who is temporarily | hard up and promises to pay: one 1 promises, have can have nothing hut disdain for a debtor who repudiates his debt and | then some fine morning knocks on | the door and asks for another loan. | Federal Govt. Joins in Fight on Chicago Gangs Chicago, Feb, 4 (UP)—The feder- al government yesterday joined the fight to rid Chicago of gangsters and cketeers, U. 8. District Attorney George E Q. Johnson announced he had re- ccived permission from Washington to investigate ctivitics of racketec alleged 1o be intercsted with inter-- state trade, Altlough deal partis who for organizations, at a fee, on of having their shops bombed, other varieties of gang activities will he included in the inquiry, it was be- leved, Johnson said the department Justice had promised to provide special assistant district attorney to iid the investigation. his arly investigation will with racketeers France Has Discovered Lindy Counter-Balance Taris, Feb, 4 (®)—France has dis- covered a counterbal, to Lind- bergh, Modest and titurn, Rene | LaCoste s chind rows of am- | basadors, minister statesmen and | politicians at the K palace : terday while President Doune conducted the Davis cup drawin Wi ¢ is this yourn m | Coste M. Doumergne |hear he was the grea the victory defeating Johnston.” | Pierre Gilloa, captain th French Davis eup team, Jirought th |1 lushing LatCoste forward to Washington okinaly Yon 1 nowe have to connterbalane 0 yos- u st artisan of Tilden and i lor e sail cnly u Lindbergl vou Do re Australia Hears Radio Broadcast Haig Funeral Melbourn: Australia Fob, 1 or) Wircless stations in Au !tralia he 1 strains s nd fra ents [l from the broadea Westminst by, London, funcral servics Atmospheric interfor it imbossible to re | rd occ Ab- rl st or of 1 o broadeast the " school boys was held yes | ernoon. i Old-fashioned marrlages lasted longer for the same reason that an oak outlasts a mushroom. A man is miserable if he is loved by the wrong woman, but a woman enjoys love no matter where it comes from. Doubtless it consoles a banana-belt native to reflect that altruism and not imperialism fired the shot that hit him. No wonder the old-fashioned fam- ily was larger. A wagon holds more passengers than a sedan, “War is fnevitable,” being trans- lated, means: “My present commer- cigl plans will require a Jot of you fellows to go out ard get killed.” Don’t scold your child for being dull. Imagine a hyena saving to its whelp: “Drat you; why aren't you a lion cub?” Young intellectual: An individual just like you, exzept that you don’t think it remarkable to be that way. Americanism: Saying hard things oabout the Government and every- thing; thinking the alien a darned menace if he says the same things, ‘What's the advantage in being boy now? The more like a boy he is, the more likely somebody will think he is a girl Huh! Spend four years telling a boy education is cverything; then tell him it is mere background und he must start at the bottom. Courtship: “Oh, if he'd only go home!"” Marrlage: “Oh, it he'd only come home!" An advertiser says the’ pipe re- mains a favorite of outdoor men, and that's falr enough—if the wind is right. Patriotism is the strange quality that makes the lowest New Yorker feel snperior to the highest Chi- cagoan. Archacologists and ave one thing in common. are interested in fossils, It only somo great man, instead of saying he began life as a poor Loy, would say he began as an in- fant. gold-diggers Toth Anyway, the! ination in the w no sex diserim- s of kin. Correct this sentence: “I've pre- sented my side,” cnjoyed argument: “Now T'll kecp still while you present yours.” Copyright, 1928, Publishers Syndicate 25 Years Ago Today (From Taper of That Date) A hill has becen introduced into the legistature to prevent the block- ing of railroad grade crossings for more than five minutes at o time. The bill results from the efforts of Selectman Prior of Plainville, who has been untiring in his efforts to abolish the dangerons and annoying conditions existi there, Representative Cooper introduec Bills into the legislatur ing, an extension of the water sys- tem, and consolidation of the fown and city governments. Tt is not ex- pected charter will be the new small fradesmen (o Join ragay before April, penalty | 3 A mass mecting of Chamberlain moved that a track team be supporied instead of said the man who | committee | |today providing for municipal light- shop Editor, care of the New Britain Herald, and your letter will be forwarded to New York. THE RIGHT WAY TO SPEND IT! | It ought to be a holiday That extra day of February, But anyway, let's make it gay, A jolliday, a glad one, very! i MOST GIRLS DO! Doris: “80 you and your hubby don't get along?” Lucy: “No, we don't. I'm getting good and tired of the male order business!" —Mrs. W. K. White, |THE FUN SHOP NEWS WEEKLY | Glad News! " | Ere long, ere long, ere very long This news will thrill old fandom's hearts And make cartoonists get to work: “The southern training scason starts!” Classified | The Anti-Kissing League of Vien- |na issues a warning that osculation causes more fatalitics than motoring does. In both pursuits there is, of course, the danger of head-on collisions! Match-Making! Oh, Rurope's girls can walt a while Before they must give in, By the time the Prince of Wales is wed, King Mickey will begin! Scasonal? The coldest place in the world is I northern Siberia, where the tem- perature falls as low as 90 degrees below zero. ; 1t is said that the thermometers used there have a tube running be- low the bulb, in case it should get {reany cola: ro. Hollywood Therc's something rather dull about The Daily news recital, been almost a ar, it seems, | Since a screen star wed a title! “LO THE MODERN INJUN! Tourist (to Indian):"You makum | your blankets for heap big horse and {little papoose?” | Blanket Vendor: “You are in er- ror, sir. We make them to cover our limousines to prevent freezing in cnso of any sudden transformation of our atmespherie condition —Josephine Hollenbeek. THE MOUTHS OF BABIES (A Fun Shop Mclodrama) In Three Acts By Franz Davison | i Act One 1o sitting room of Mrs. Able- | ma Mrs, Collier i3 talking to her.) “Really d . Knapp gives fne a PAIN 1 1 does, She is ays RAVING about the good, OLD days and how they did things when she 1 GIRL."” probably Just do “Well, it DOES take a MARVELOUS memory to re- member what happened when SHIE was a girll” | it Two (Mrs, Collicr’s sitting room. | Knapp is talking to her.) Mrs, Knapp: “I think it's a crime whit 3 cducation these days! When I was a girl, children went to school to learn (heir figures {and letters—not to paste up paper chains and learn folk dance Mrs, Collier | fied with the p Moy is- s our little Rich- “Yes. He's eight years old, and I'll bet he can make | Valentine favo good as a grown- up.'” Act Three (Mrs, Collier's sitting room, Time, a half hour later. Richard Collier returns from school.) Mrs. Collic “Here now. Ask him some arithmetic.” Mrs. Knapp: “How much s five {and six?" Richard: “Twelve, Mrs. Collier , he only missed it by two!"” is Richard question in ball team, but the motion was | atter a long discussion. He hen moved it be supported in wddi- tion to the baseball lateness of the team, hour Jecase action of the | was postponed. The Business Men's association is aking steps to help sccure a new post off he society will Told its 1 banquet at the Russwin on v 19. Senator Sloper will act us toastmastor, Another bill introduccd hy Ttepre- | elec- here 1hre continuing of the until entative Sloper calls for fhe sess0rs the tion o every The muayor and fire el in town today i Super tir mmissioncrs Meriden the from were alarm G eling nident them their 10 system it |Cooley econducted on tour and cxplained ystem {them Baliwin los Tla barrel. « last o 1 returned evening, Th the armory an their homes. T during their stay trict they received plenty of it. They particular necd for there, but say that tie many soldiers acied s ek vom Wa soldiers erhury marched rsed 11 then re 0 disp to ort it rike c their presence sight of i 50 & rreny ) strikers ou s, wis Auditorinm and duty quartered in quired to d in front of 1 g in keeping the 1 back | GOOD IDEAY Uncle 20th Unele don thal ¢l four years. Mlien why the dick- it for a presiden- 1 his ¢ eral 1 attered yellow ed with penn led to weetully in of the gen- reet tore flivver racer, ador 1 slozan plates, and rat stop in front of the store “Hey, Tnel awled one of the mate acquaintance sometimes be- {clouds the better qualities of folks met in the course of the day's joys and pleasures, it is possible to see only the surface of our neighbors. Because of this human failing, the place of the Jew in the realm of music is frequently overlooked, greatly to his dind.untln The comcert given one evening this week at the synagogue of the Congrega- tion Bons of Israel emphasized the Jew's love for what has heen eu- phoniously described as ‘the “voice of the soul,” more commonly called music. Noted on the program were the .works of the world’s best com- posers, an appreciation of Which seems to be born in most Jews But they are at home with popular mu- sic as well as the classica. Since man discovered that it was possible to express himself througn music as well as through conversa- tion, the Jew has contributed lib- crally toward its development. “Mu- sical America” recently published a {list of Jews who have become fa- |mous as composers or musicians. |The list, printed in amall type, was more than a column long. Nearly all the publishers of popu- ‘lar music are Jews and a large part Jol’ the publishers of-classical music are in the same religious category. The two leading weekly musical magazines in America are published |by Jews. Listen in on the radio and Inote the number of Jews who are |leading the most widely known o1 hestras. Koussevitsky, conductor of | the Boston Symphony orchestra, one of the most distinguished in the nation, is Jewish. Jascha Helfetz and Mischa FEl- {man, who rank with the best vio- |linists of the day, are simply fol- | lowing in the tracks of illustrious | | predecessors in their line, including | achim, Bruch, composer of ex- | | quisite music f8r the violin, is of | more recent memory. Though other |arts may aisappear, the composi- tions of Mendelssohn and Meyer- | beer, to mention only two, will live |forever in the hearts of men. Inthe sphere of the piapo, Moszkowski | |stands among the leaders. ! Even the present generation in America has given Jews whose works are known in every house. hold. Irving Berlin, who raised ‘rag [time” to its highest pinnacle, is one {of the most widely known writers |of music. Of late, he has given way | |to songs that appcal to the senti- {ment and if it is argued that his {ballads cannot he compared with the scores of the great composers |of classical music, it must be re-| |membered that he writes to and {for the masses, and apparently they | like it. Another New Yorker, the !product of the KEast side, has stepped into the spotlight of late, |He is George Gershwin, Whose Concerto in 1 for the piano and | “Rhapsody in Blue" have brought | him world wide fame. Gershwin's !works huve been played by the “\'l-w York Symphony orchestra and | Paul Whiteman's band. | Not only does the Jew produce | music but he fosters it through philanthropics. Otto H. Kahn, Gug- genheim and Lewisohn give gener- ously of their funds to support and promote musical enterprises, Remove the Jew from the history of music_and there would be very little left. The way of a man with a mald may be so remarkable as to give inspiration to poets of all lands and | abilities, but it is no whit stranger | than the way of a man buying pu- | jamas. Many men profess that pa- | jamas and underwear, being hidden | from the world, give them ne con- cern and that any scrviceablo suft which fits will do, but men have [inueh more of the esthete in them | i(' an they prof according to men'y {wear retailers, and they exerclse the same carcful choice which they display In sclecting ties or socks. | | Men frequently come into stores |and ask for a suit of pajamas and | say that any which fits will fill the | | bargain. The clerk will pick one at | random from the several on di play and will say. “How about this?” | Whercupon the customer backs up | {on his haunches and expresses his diapproval of the choice, therchy Cisproving his statement of a sec- | ond before. He does not expect that | | his fricnds—or enemies—will sece I him in his pajamas, and he says so, | but he cannot bring himaelf to wear | teful suit even beneath the | hedeovers in the dark. | Pule shades like lavender are dis- | ountenanced with a statement such | “I perspire a great deal and those delicate colors run o casl 1ven black is frowned upon with ihe cxcuse of fading, in spite of the fuct that clothing merchants say this is impossible. Tmpossibilities mean no more to these buyers than | their own avowed carelessmess. And of cousre women are much more careful in thelr sclections than the men, Ever since the end of the Victorian days when underthingw were called “unmentionables” and | scemed 10 consist of interminable layers of material designed to | smother the wearer, the trend in | their styles has been steadily toward | increasing daintiness of beauty and | woman why such | + is displayed in select- | ing clothing which even in these | days is partly conccaled from pub- | iic view, you are liable to receive & | | |induc | occupants, “any specd limit in this | {town?” spat wrathfully into peed limit 2" he squeak- Dang it, no! You fellers can't git yerselves through this town fast {cnough t'suit us!™ i Isan B. Well.s THE SILVER LINING!? i's back at home again, . cheers and one hurray! is guarantees the ladios fair | A happy Valentine day! | —Alan Hodges. | (Copyright, 1928, Reproduction i Forbidden) l Lindby | story by its readors has been aho |of all ahout him. |that he is possessed of a wenderful the back of every woman's mind ana leads to the precaution of pretty and unsolled underthings. For, “Suppos- ing anything ahould happen. I wouldn't want the doctor to find me etc, ete.” The endurance record for an American author and the continuous performance mark for & serial are held by Adele Garrison in her man ried life serial, “Revelations of a Wife” which is published in more than & hundred and fifty news- papers, including The Herald, Approximately three million words and four thousand chapters of this story of married life have been written by Adele Garrison to date. The story has run in ten different phases, each a complete novel. “Revelations of a Wife” began fn August, 1915, At first, the atory ran four in- stalments a we2k but later was in- creased to six and has never been interrupted. Its two central charac- ters, Dicky Graham, temperamental artist, and his wife, Madge, who tells the story have held the center of the stage for.over twelve years. Other married life serlals with succeeding phases have been discon- tinued or limited to ome chapter a week, “Revelations of a Wife” alone stays on, the hardy perennial of married life acrials still more in de- mand than ever, The intenso intereat taken in this frequently when editors, thinking a change would be desirable, have dis- continued *Revelations.” The M. <istent demands of loyal “fans” caus- cd “Revelations” to quickly re- appear., ‘Women's clubs have taken it as a | textbook for the discussion of mar- ried life problems. Men in all walks | of life—lawyers, doctors, workers and even newspaper men—send Mias Gurriscn their testimonfals. But the most loyal readers are women— rich and poor —- names well-known and country women on lonely farms. The wife of a Chicago multi- millionaire recently wrote Miss Ga: rison that ahe had not missed an in- stalment since its beginning. From Maine a woman wrote: “The characters are so real to me that T feel as if I had known them alwaya —as if they were real people in the | same room with me." | And so, “Revelations of a Wife” continues—the longest and most widely published of all serials in book or newspaper form. If you think a remark, a story or a situation is funny, laugh; it you don’t think it is, don't laugh! Sounds like silly advice, we'll ad- mit—perhaps it sounds silliest to those who need it most. Just look about you. Take mental notes of your business and social acquaint- ances and of those who happen to sit near you at the theater, o game or a dinner. Is there anything more goat-grabbing than the individual who continually hursts into long, loud, monotonous and well measured wuffaws, at the least provocation? There isn’t the slightest trace of mirth, He merely gives vent to his animal instinct and emits loud and meaningless noises to the discomfort Perhaps he thinks he is selling the public on the idea sense of humor. It may be that he wishes to flatter the speaker by making it appear that his sayings and his stories are uproariously funny, or it may be that laughing specimen is somewhat of a drydock comedian himself and is laying in a stock of good-will to be available when he sounds off with his line of chatter, In any event he's wrong. If he could only see himself as others do, it wouldn't take him long to realize that he appears to be in the 8 with those who have no sense of humor and laugh always lest they allow a really funny thing to pass without registering. When a speaker knows there will be a cere- monious “haw-haw-haw-haw” after cach remark he is likely to put our friend in the nit-wit class and wish | he would shut up before he makes everyone clse lose their sense of humor, If he is worried about the reaction to his own stories, he can rest assured there will be a laugh, but it won't be a laugh with himg instead it will be one at him, The disadvantages under which automobiles operate after a fall of #now are so well known that to re- cite them would be a mere waste of paper, ink, and time. But their existence is so generally noticed that the hurrying motorist usually over- looks ecntirely the benefits which accrue from the presence of snow upon the ground. He may even be inclined to argue with us that there are none, 80 we will catalog a few. | The snow allows you to say, “I| skidded,” when you are bawled out for trespassing on the crosswalk | while the red light is flashing. | The snow can be blamed for the erratic path of your car if you are going home under too heavy a load of alcoholic beverages. The snow will allow you to make the acquaintance of desirablc flap- pers whose chalnless cars become stuck in drifts. The snow is far less crackly than gravel and will so deaden the sound of your wheels that you can come in late at night and negotiate the driveway without awakening the womenfolk and giving them an op- portunity to berate you. The snow will allow a mest hair- raising swerve upon occasion and even the most fastidious of girls to throw her arms around you. And, finally, The snow makes driving through our city streets much smoother and more pleasing, as it fills up the in. nunierable holes in the pavements. COMMUNICATED Tov Many Motor Laws—Ioor Driving Just the Same | Dear Editor: Permit me to write you these few lines and give me a little @pace in|ern districts and |te the courts. | tence. sane laws as to how to run a car, I do net believe in making the book of Motor Vehicle Laws bigger and bigger from year to year. Mr. Bennett is also right in regard to certain “drives” on law vielation from time to time, and & week after theso “drives,” one can get away with almost anything. Y believe that the motor vehicle owners of this “fines and costs” on account of those too many “don'ts.”” We should have more people like MNMr. Bemnett of ‘Wilton, Very truly yours, JOSEPH LANDWEHR., ARREST STEWART FOR KEEPING NUM Toagot Dome Witness Oniered to Tell of Ol Loases Washington, Feb. ¢ (P—Held un- der arrest by the senate because he refused to give ita Teapot Dome committee certain desired informs- tion, Robert W. Stewart, Indiana Standard Oil official, stood at a crossroads today, deciding a course of action. One path led to the bar of the senate where, in the custody of a deputy sergeant-at-arms who re- mained with him all night, he was ordered to appear to maintain or abandon his refusal of yesterday to tell the oil committee what he knows of dcposition made of profits of the Contincntal Trading Co. of Canada. The other led to the District of Columbia courts and recourse to habeas corpus procedings by which he might sue to cscape the scnate's clutch upon him. 8hould Stewart elect to face the senate and cling to his refusal to an- swer, the senate then would have to decide whether or order him to jail for contempt or turn his case over It the scnate itselt sentences Stewart, he 'still would have recourse to the courts with habeas corpus action that would bring before the legal bar the ques- tion whether the senate in fact holds power of finprisonment. Btewart, who is chairman of the board ‘of the Indiana Standard, was arrested at his hotel last night soon after the senate, with dramatic swiftness, orderell it by adopting a resolution presented by Benatoe Walsh, democrat, Montana, prosecu- tor of the renewed ofl inquiry by the lands committee. Promptly then, David 8. Barry, the sergeant-at-arms, and his deputy, John McGrain, went to Stewart's hotel, the Willard. Be- hind locked doors they took the oil man into custody. It was over in a few minuter. Barry emerged but McGrain stayed in the room, as is customary in such cases when immediate transfer to a Jjail is not made. Barry announced that Stewart had been “nice and agreeable” and would “make no trouble.”” He sald the oil magnate was “calm and cool when we served the warrant.” The arrest and senate action cap- ped a tense day before the ofl com- mittee where Stewart, with renewed | flashes of temper and jocularity, per- sisted in his declination to relate his knowledgo of Liberty Bond trans- actions of the Continental company, which already in testimony have in- volved payments by Harry F. Sin- clair, Teapot Dome lessce, to Albert B. Fall, former interior gecretary. He based his refusal on the ground that the case is at issue in the courts and that his testimony should be given before a jury. No amount of hammering by committee members could shake his determina- tion to remain’silent. He talked freely about all phases of the inquiry except that conccrning the disposi- tion made of the company's profits from its contract to buy ofl from the flelds of the late E. A. Humph- reys of Denver, and sell it to the Standard and other companies, in some of which Sinclair is interested. The arrest of Stewart offers & parallel with the case of Sinclair. who likewise was held in contempt of the senate for refusal to testify. In the Sinclair case, however, the scnate turned his case over to the District of Columbia courts, and he now under a three months’ sen- Senator Walsh desires that this time the senate itselt sentence because it offers quicker action. Having thus surrendered Stewart to the custody of the senate, the ol rln\‘\‘!(lpm'il\r committee turned tgday {to other witnesses in the hope tha they would be able to throw some light on the Canadian company's dealings. An unidentified witness, an official of the Prairie Oil and Gas company, was summoned for the morning session, along with other prominent figures in the oil inquiry. Observations On The Weather Washington, ¥eb. 4.—Forecast for Bouthern New England: Fair and warmer Saturday; Sunday in- creasing cloudiness, probably fol- lowed by rain at night. Conditions: The low pressure area that was over northern Manl- toba Friday morning has advanced southeustward, being central north of Lake Buperior. High pressure prevails in the Atlantio states and off the Atlantic coast. The outlook is for fair weather on Baturday and increasing cloudiness on Sunday, followed by rain Sunday night in the Atlantic states. It will be warmer on Saturday over north- colder Baturday night in northern New England your valuable paper. It was certain-